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Charlotte among top cities for property crime
While property crime remains high in Charlotte, there has been a 5% decrease since 2024.
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Foxx named Rules chair for US House
North Carolina's Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, NC-05, has been tapped by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Lousiana, to chair the powerful US House Committee on Rules. She was ratified by the conference Tuesday morning.
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Waste Watch: Feds dish out millions in bonuses to government workers
Though it may be the season of giving, the federal government has been giving away millions of taxpayer dollars to reward government workers for underperforming in their jobs, according to a waste watch analysis.
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Hudson re-elected as NRCC chairman, Republicans win House majority
As Republicans secure House majority, Hudson re-elected as NRCC chairman.
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Unaffiliated voters led NC’s early turnout, Republican advantage grows
With early voting closed and Election Day just hours away, North Carolina's unaffiliated voters cast the most early ballots of any group, up more than 100,000 votes over 2020 turnout. "The 2024 electorate looks different from 2020 in important ways, all of which appear to benefit Republicans," said Andy Jackson of the John Locke Foundation.
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Tillis, Budd to introduce legislation to replenish SBA as communities rebuild
The legislation would replenish the Disaster Loan Program, after the SBA announced earlier this month that they had run out of funds, as was anticipated due to an increased demand following Hurricane Helene.
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RFK Jr. is officially joining the NC ballot
All eyes are on North Carolina, meaning Kennedy’s influence could be detrimental – or advantageous – to Democrats and Republicans.
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McHenry named chairman of U.S. House Financial Services Committee
U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry, representing North Carolina's 10th Congressional District, has been officially named the new chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, after serving on the committee since first elected in 2005.
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Budd lead grows as latest poll shows him breaking 50%, outside margin of error
Until the last weeks of the election, polls consistently showed Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd and Democrat former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley in a dead heat for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat. But as undecided voters have begun solidifying their choices, it seems they are breaking heavily toward Budd. The latest...
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National publication The Hill lists N.C. Senate seat among seven most likely to flip
North Carolina’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race is among the seven nationwide that are most likely to see a partisan “flip,” according to a report Monday in The Hill. “Seven weeks before Election Day, Senate races in closely watched swing states remain tight, but a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of the landscape heading...
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N.C. hits all-time high gas price of $4.20 as Biden cancels more oil leases
As gas prices pass $4.50 a gallon in N.C., one grassroots group rolls back the cost to remind voters what it used to be like.
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Analysts: United Healthcare’s Exit From N.C. Obamacare Exchange Ominous
Concerns about a potential Obamacare death spiral and rapidly escalating insurance premium costs reignited with Tuesday’s announcement by UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest insurance company, that in 2017 it would pull out of most of the nation’s health exchanges — including North Carolina’s. Since Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has not ruled out...
